OSPF Jobs in the UK excluding London

Open Shortest Path First (OSPF)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring OSPF skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited OSPF over the 6 months leading up to 20 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 457 529 517
Rank change year-on-year +72 -12 +87
Permanent jobs citing OSPF 130 252 206
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.33% 0.31% 0.38%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.66% 2.48% 1.96%
Number of salaries quoted 101 172 159
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £48,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.25% -3.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £58,750 £56,250 £60,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £67,250 £70,500
UK median annual salary £53,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.95% -4.55% -7.54%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK excluding London

OSPF falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 7,818 10,154 10,519
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 19.61% 12.43% 19.21%
Number of salaries quoted 3,784 7,159 4,508
10th Percentile £23,504 £25,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £25,087 £31,250 £32,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,000 £44,886 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -28.71% -0.25% -5.26%
75th Percentile £52,500 £58,750 £61,250
90th Percentile £68,525 £70,000 £75,000
UK median annual salary £37,500 £47,500 £51,350
% change year-on-year -21.05% -7.50% -2.19%

OSPF
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing OSPF as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for OSPF in the UK excluding London

OSPF
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing OSPF in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for OSPF in the UK excluding London

OSPF
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing OSPF in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 20 June 2025.

Salary histogram for OSPF in the UK excluding London

OSPF
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing OSPF within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 20 June 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East +62 66 £52,500 - 37
North of England +9 24 £70,000 +64.71% 36
Yorkshire +60 18 £75,000 +57.89% 15
South West +113 12 £55,560 +14.56% 10
Midlands +58 12 £35,000 -27.84% 17
West Midlands +42 12 £35,000 -27.84% 12
Scotland +111 7 £67,500 +3.85% 40
North West -39 6 £57,500 +43.75% 16
East of England +33 5 £50,000 -20.00% 6
Wales +45 3 £55,000 +18.28% 8
Channel Islands - 1 £45,000 -
OSPF
UK

OSPF
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 5 (3.85%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 13 (10.00%) MS Visio
2 8 (6.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (6.15%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.77%) AutoCAD
Cloud Services
1 32 (24.62%) Azure
2 23 (17.69%) AWS
3 9 (6.92%) Microsoft 365
4 8 (6.15%) Google Workspace
5 7 (5.38%) GCP
6 6 (4.62%) OCI
7 3 (2.31%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (2.31%) SaaS
7 3 (2.31%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 2 (1.54%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (1.54%) Cloudflare
8 2 (1.54%) Serverless
9 1 (0.77%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 1 (0.77%) Azure Sentinel
9 1 (0.77%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 119 (91.54%) BGP
2 88 (67.69%) Firewall
3 59 (45.38%) EIGRP
4 56 (43.08%) TCP/IP
5 45 (34.62%) Network Security
5 45 (34.62%) VPN
5 45 (34.62%) WAN
6 40 (30.77%) VLAN
7 32 (24.62%) LAN
8 27 (20.77%) Cisco ASA
9 23 (17.69%) IPsec
10 21 (16.15%) MPLS
11 20 (15.38%) SD-WAN
12 19 (14.62%) Wireless
13 18 (13.85%) DHCP
14 17 (13.08%) Cisco Firepower
15 16 (12.31%) DNS
16 11 (8.46%) WLAN
17 10 (7.69%) DMVPN
17 10 (7.69%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.77%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (1.54%) JMeter
2 1 (0.77%) GitLab
2 1 (0.77%) JIRA
2 1 (0.77%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 32 (24.62%) Social Skills
2 9 (6.92%) Retail
3 8 (6.15%) Automotive
4 7 (5.38%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (5.38%) Police
5 4 (3.08%) Advertising
5 4 (3.08%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (3.08%) Local Government
6 3 (2.31%) Finance
6 3 (2.31%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (2.31%) Telecoms
7 2 (1.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.54%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.77%) Aviation
8 1 (0.77%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 86 (66.15%) Network Engineer
2 15 (11.54%) IT Engineer
2 15 (11.54%) Network Security Engineer
2 15 (11.54%) Security Engineer
2 15 (11.54%) Senior
3 12 (9.23%) Lead
3 12 (9.23%) Senior Network Engineer
4 11 (8.46%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
4 11 (8.46%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
5 10 (7.69%) 1st Line Engineer
6 9 (6.92%) Cisco Engineer
6 9 (6.92%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 8 (6.15%) Designer
7 8 (6.15%) Network Designer
7 8 (6.15%) Systems Engineer
8 7 (5.38%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 7 (5.38%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
9 6 (4.62%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 5 (3.85%) 1st Line Support
10 5 (3.85%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (4.62%) 802.1X
2 4 (3.08%) REST
3 3 (2.31%) JSON
3 3 (2.31%) Middleware
3 3 (2.31%) YAML
4 1 (0.77%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 36 (27.69%) Data Centre
2 9 (6.92%) Management Information System
3 8 (6.15%) Public Cloud
3 8 (6.15%) Smartphone
4 6 (4.62%) PMI
5 5 (3.85%) Driving Licence
6 4 (3.08%) PKI
7 2 (1.54%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.54%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.77%) Clustering
8 1 (0.77%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 1 (0.77%) e-Learning
8 1 (0.77%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.77%) Operational Technology
8 1 (0.77%) SCADA
8 1 (0.77%) Smartcard
8 1 (0.77%) Video Conferencing
8 1 (0.77%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 15 (11.54%) Windows
2 13 (10.00%) Linux
3 10 (7.69%) Windows 10
3 10 (7.69%) Windows Server
4 9 (6.92%) Ubuntu
5 8 (6.15%) Mac OS X
5 8 (6.15%) Windows Server 2016
5 8 (6.15%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.77%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (20.00%) Network Design
2 16 (12.31%) Continuous Improvement
3 15 (11.54%) Problem-Solving
3 15 (11.54%) Project Delivery
4 13 (10.00%) Network Monitoring
5 12 (9.23%) Computer Science
5 12 (9.23%) Network Management
6 10 (7.69%) Agile
6 10 (7.69%) Network Architecture
6 10 (7.69%) Service Delivery
7 9 (6.92%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 9 (6.92%) Line Management
7 9 (6.92%) Load Balancing
8 8 (6.15%) Business Case
8 8 (6.15%) ITIL
8 8 (6.15%) Migration
8 8 (6.15%) Performance Tuning
8 8 (6.15%) Systems Engineering
8 8 (6.15%) Task Automation
8 8 (6.15%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 18 (13.85%) Python
2 16 (12.31%) PowerShell
3 13 (10.00%) SQL
4 2 (1.54%) Bash
4 2 (1.54%) R
5 1 (0.77%) Java
5 1 (0.77%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.77%) Scala
Qualifications
1 63 (48.46%) Security Cleared
2 50 (38.46%) SC Cleared
3 41 (31.54%) DV Cleared
4 36 (27.69%) Cisco Certification
5 24 (18.46%) CCNA
6 22 (16.92%) Degree
7 19 (14.62%) CCNP
8 12 (9.23%) Computer Science Degree
9 8 (6.15%) HNC
9 8 (6.15%) HND
9 8 (6.15%) MCSE
9 8 (6.15%) Microsoft Certification
10 6 (4.62%) PMI Certification
11 4 (3.08%) CCIE
12 3 (2.31%) AWS Certification
13 2 (1.54%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 1 (0.77%) DBS Check
14 1 (0.77%) JNCIA
14 1 (0.77%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (1.54%) QA
2 1 (0.77%) GDPR
2 1 (0.77%) HIPAA
2 1 (0.77%) PCI DSS
2 1 (0.77%) SLA
System Software
1 21 (16.15%) VMware Infrastructure
2 16 (12.31%) Active Directory
3 13 (10.00%) Hyper-V
4 7 (5.38%) VMware NSX
5 4 (3.08%) Docker
6 3 (2.31%) Firmware
7 1 (0.77%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 30 (23.08%) FortiGate
2 21 (16.15%) Ansible
3 9 (6.92%) Kubernetes
4 6 (4.62%) Microsoft Intune
4 6 (4.62%) WSUS
5 2 (1.54%) Iperf
5 2 (1.54%) Puppet
5 2 (1.54%) Terraform
6 1 (0.77%) Backup Exec
6 1 (0.77%) Cisco Prime
6 1 (0.77%) Failover Clustering
6 1 (0.77%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (0.77%) Nagios
6 1 (0.77%) Nessus
6 1 (0.77%) SCCM
6 1 (0.77%) WMI
Vendors
1 103 (79.23%) Cisco
2 63 (48.46%) Fortinet
3 42 (32.31%) Juniper
4 29 (22.31%) VMware
5 18 (13.85%) Microsoft
6 17 (13.08%) CheckPoint
6 17 (13.08%) Palo Alto
7 13 (10.00%) Ubiquiti
8 11 (8.46%) F5
8 11 (8.46%) SolarWinds
9 9 (6.92%) Dell
9 9 (6.92%) Google
10 8 (6.15%) Apple
10 8 (6.15%) Aruba
11 7 (5.38%) McAfee
12 5 (3.85%) Draytek
13 4 (3.08%) HP
13 4 (3.08%) Meraki
14 3 (2.31%) Citrix
15 2 (1.54%) SonicWALL